1st Edition
Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism
Edited By Tim Fulford
Copyright 2022
492 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Life of Wesley was one of Southey’s most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley – the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century – to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community. In addition, it was a major history of the rise of a phenomenon that Southey and many others saw as a defining sign of contemporary... Read more
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Editorial Introduction
Southey’s Life of Wesley
Appendix A: Eyewitness Accounts of Certain Disturbances at the Wesley Family Home
Appendix B: Wesley and Elizabeth Briggs: a Methodist Sexual Abuse Scandal?
Appendix C: Reviews of Southey’s Life of Wesley
Appendix D: Remarks on the Life and Character of John Wesley, by the Late Alexander Knox, Esq.
Biography
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montford University, UK
